World Globalisation Newswire Archive

Deep in a bunker beneath the White House, President-in-waiting Condozleeza Rice, discusses Iran and forthcoming military tactics with George Bush Junior. Then the fateful news comes in...

The principal freedom Iraq and the rest of the world will intentionally be denied.

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A short radio-interview with an indymedia activist at the IMC in Bamako about the role of Indymedia in the global justice movement and reflections on the IMC in Bamako

Malian Riot Police stopped a march of WSF participants today, who were on their way to the French embassy to demand the stop of deportations of illegalised migrants from France and Europe. The network NoVox  http://no-vox.org called for the demostration to demand from the French governement papers for all sans-papiers.

The WSF took a strong stance against European migration policies in a variety of meetings called by African, Maghrebian and European NGOS and groups.

As the first week of testimony from the British witnesses at the Genova G8 Diaz raid trial passes, despite many incursions by lawyers representing the police, Oscar Beard recounts the events of the attack in interviews with several victims.

º He aquí las actividades del FSA, evento que surgió en respuesta a evidentes servidumbres y limitaciones del FSM convocado en los mismos días y ciudad. Para detalles sobre las razones que motivan nuestro Foro, ver www.fsa.contrapoder.org.ve

This is a global call for action by S.M.Mohamed Idris, the President of Consumers Association of Penang and Friends of the Earth Malaysia to boycott Singapore Airlines in view of the warning issued by the Singapore government that it is prepared to cane or imprison protestors who commit "violent crimes" during the forthcoming Annual Meeting of the World Bank and IMF in September this year which will be held in Singapore.

In what some people called the first ever "reclaim the streets" in Africa, activists from the Youth Camp and IMC Bamako joined the opening demonstration of the WSF in Bamako, Mali today with a proper local mobil soundsystem set up.

With a surprise new audio cassette released this week, Bin Laden is back in the media spotlight. It seems to be a hit already even though few people have actually heard it, so we decided to check it out and bring you the score...

The WSF in Bamako is about to start, but already today people got wild about world politics. It was shocking, funny and leaves at lot of space for improvement.

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Marcos: Zapatistas Will Not Attend Evo's Inauguration in Bolivia
By Al Giordano, Narco News

Another civil war in Africa could be in the making as protesters riot in the Ivory Coast to kick out U.N. troops...

For anyone who managed to get to rampART a couple of weeks ago for the screening of the documentary 'Enron - the smartest guys in the room', the latest corporate scandle revolving around the internet trailblazer Livedoor should be a familiar one.

Today, the highest oil prices in more than three months led to the largest drop in the stock market in over six weeks and knocked back big consumers such as British Airways Plc. But will increasing oil prices help to temper the increased demand for air travel, the fastest growing contributor to greenhouse gas emissions?

If air travel were to grow at the predicated rate it would soon become the biggest single obstacle to curbing climate change and put all other efforts to cut greenhouse emissions in danger of being swamped by aviation emissions.

The UK, for example has set a target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. But it also predicts a quadrupling of air travel by the same date. If the predictions are accurate then air travel would use up every last tonne of British emissions entitlements.

But as we reach the peak of world wide oil production, can the air industry survive until 2050 anyway? In fact can the economy and indeed civilisation as we know it survive until 2050 or even 2020 for that mater...

Lord Birt, being a Non Executive Directory of PayPal Europe has directly benefited from an association with Fascist Groups currently on trial for Incitement to Racial Hatred and others whose recidivist convictions threaten to boil over into violence at any moment.

After I've arrived in Bamako airport at 3am this morning thanks to a three hour delay of the plane, this first intresting thing was the temperature: 19 degrees Celsius!
With the help of two Attac activists from Finnland I found a place to stay for a short night and finanlly hooked up with the french indymedia lot today.

Rising global energy prices are hitting UK manufactures, but the costs have yet to be passed down to the consumer...